I am writing for myself and strangers. This is the only way that I can do it.

Whoever said money can't buy happiness didn't know where to shop

Everybody gets so much information all day long that they lose their common sense.

A vegetable garden in the beginning looks so promising and then after all little by little it grows nothing but vegetables, nothing, nothing but vegetables.

You'll be old and you never lived, and you kind of feel silly to lie down and die and to never have lived, to have been a job chaser and never have lived.

You are all a lost generation.

America is my country and Paris is my hometown.

In the morning there is meaning, in the evening there is feeling.

Love: the skillful audacity required to share an inner life.

What was the use of my having come from Oakland it was not natural to have come from there yes write about it if I like or anything if I like but not there, there is no there there.

That is what you are. That's what you all are...All of you young people who served in the war. You are a lost generation.

We are all born as storytellers. Our inner voice tells the first story we ever hear.

Intuition is unconscious accumulated experience informing judgement in real time.

Working hard denies oneself from instant gratification.

When I think of my dad as a little boy I tend to think of him in black and white.

Flowers are happy things.

All of us have special ones who have loved us into being. Would you just take, along with me, ten seconds to think of the people who have helped you become who you are....Ten seconds of silence.

For when we talk about the spreading power and influence of globalization, arent we really referring to the spreading economic and military might of the US?

I'm the only hell my Mama ever raised.

Do the right things instead of trying to do everything right.

They Have Money For War But Can't Feed The Poor.